That's a beautiful portrait.Quote:
Originally Posted by SergeiR
Jardel.
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That's a beautiful portrait.Quote:
Originally Posted by SergeiR
Jardel.
thanks, Jardel
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And a bit more traditional one from same test session.
4x5 Ilford 400, Chamonix 45n2, 210mm Symmar
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8293/7...d8eb5fa4_z.jpg
Laced by Sergei Rodionov, on Flickr
5X7 ambrotype
http://schroederworks.com/Wetplate/RebByWindow002.jpg
Linhof Technika, Rodenstock 150, HP5+ (Moersch Tanol)
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7134/7...1af156d2_z.jpg
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cant help but stop and admire good choice of focal plane angle to be so selective. Nicely done.Quote:
Originally Posted by z84
Another month with many great portraits, Serge yet again stands out for me at any rate!
I have been busy working in the studio with no time to play with LF at all... well until my new to me AT thompson Petzval turned up in the post today, AND the Mrs popped in to the studio to visit me just as the epoxy had dried on the retaining ring/lensboard.... so just a very quick and dirty test.... Mounted on a technica lensboard, then on a sinar/technica adpater board and Sinar shutter mounted on my Horseman LS 4x5 at portarit distance it seems to be a 240mm f4 with plenty of coverage for 4x5... more testing needs to be done... when I get time haha!
Nothing special as said, just tests, but I can see this lens becoming a fave!
Fuji isntant;
http://www.lediardfoto.com/marit_fuji_petz001.jpg
http://www.lediardfoto.com/marit_fuji_petz002.jpg
Type 55 (very expired)
http://www.lediardfoto.com/marit_t55_petz001.jpg
Thanks, Nathan.
I like third one of yours better - it frames nicely with trees and she seems to be a little less pressed to hold a pose (ah, that traditional one for formal bridals, old school... :)))
Thanks for the feedback Sergei :) Yes she was feeling the seriousness when she saw me pull out the type55 :D I look forward to making more considered portraits with this lens :)
The tired photographer... aka myself
Waiting for 145 hassy files to get spat out of lightroom ready for customer deadline tomorrow morning... well the horseman was sitting on the tripod with the new petzval so why not? Self portrait at arms length with normal length release... Fuji 100 4x5 film and lit with the nearest lamp I had at hand, ...an Arri 300 1/15s @ roughly f4
http://www.lediardfoto.com/self_fuji_petz001.jpg
Original and crop of 4x5. 10 3/4" Goerz Dagor wide open (f6.8). Uncoated buttery smoothness.Attachment 79205Attachment 79206Attachment 79207
Posted a Polaroid version of this shot earlier, but this one on expired T-Max is a bit more moody, I think.
http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/T-Max-400...P-on-Slide.jpg
Jonathan
My friend, a machinist, soon to retire. He sure liked the big camera and was a very cooperative subject.
Deardorff 8x10, front swing, 240mm Schneider Symmar S, HP5+
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/55432652/Da...1%20720LFF.jpg
Nice shot David. I enjoy images of people in their workplaces, particularly "industry" (aka manufacturing), which has been my career history.
4x5 Graphic View / Arista 100 / Xtol 1:1
http://www.keepsakephotography.us/4x5/AlisonFilm.jpg
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8298/7...c18aed92_c.jpg
Century Studio 10A w/5x7 back
Kodak Portrait 305/4.8 @ f/6.3-f/8
Iford HP5 Plus / Rodinal 1+50
Terrific job, Ben!
Nice portrait of the machinist!
I'm starting a family and friends environmental portrait project on 8x10. i hope I can do as well as this one.
nicely done ben and great pic jonathan
Another one ...
http://s7.directupload.net/images/120823/aco6bed5.jpg
Sinar F2, Apo-Lanthar 150/4.5@ f 4,5, FP4+ expired in HC 110
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8423/7...ed0718f4_c.jpg
Excellent image Christo!!!
Terrific job, Luke.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luke79
Well done :) (although if i may suggest - crop bench legs and bunch of window from the top - it will make her almost diagonal and elongate her optically)Quote:
Originally Posted by Luke79
I don't have my enlarger set up since moving yet, but a quick scan from a negative from this weekend, anyway:
very nice...Quote:
Originally Posted by Pfiltz
Love this one. The light, the model, the high key but not obtrusive glowing background, the...I won't use the buzzword but the out of focus rendering of that background ;) - beautiful.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luke79
Um...have to disagree a bit, at least about "bunch of window." A small amount could come off the bottom and an even smaller amount off the top but I would definitely leave the horizontal bar of the top of the window. Without it, it wouldn't be a window, just an open area. I think the window look is integral to the image, at least for me. I'd also prefer the bench to stay recognizable as such, IOW don't crop off all the legs of it. I don't think either crop is needed, though.Quote:
Originally Posted by SergeiR
thank you guys and thanks sergei for the tip, but i thought the same as roger, i have tried different crops, but than the magic was gone, i have left it that way, the same reason that roger mentioned
Very well done compositionQuote:
Originally Posted by Pfiltz
painfully awesome.Quote:
Originally Posted by K. Praslowicz
My first deliberate attempt at portraiture.
Wista 45. 210mm Symmar S. f5.6 1/4 second.
Any feedback welcome.
Thanks
Andrew
Attachment 79309
... so what film is that? I really like the image, and the overall "look". I keep going back to it and looking again.Quote:
Originally Posted by K. Praslowicz
Looks great, kiteboy!
Another Impossible 8x10. This material can be frustrating (especially the way it ages), but I think they're on the right track. They're testing new film right now which is leaps and bounds beyond this old formula. Hopefully they make it available in 8x10 before too long.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8445/7...4ba3e37c_b.jpg
Century studio camera, Fuji 300A
Polaroid 809, unknown expiration.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8434/7...27928e5b_b.jpg
A decent start, but there are more possibilities since you asked. I'm sure you wanted to show him and his shop both.. I'd suggest making the lighting a little bit more dramatic and reducing the depth of field. The background is important but distracting. A little more light on the person would make it stand out more, and a thinner depth of field just enough to show the shop, but to make the person stand out would be more to my liking. More light on the person would make the background go a little darker. I think the white hair would be more splendid with the slightly darker background than you have. Keep it up! You've got everything you need. Expend some film and time.Quote:
Originally Posted by kiteboy
Thanks, Peter! Much appreciated.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter J. De Smidt
I like the craftsman in his shop photo. With large format it's challenging. Long exposures are tricky with a person. I found it's better to have them brace themselves a little (so it's not obvious).Quote:
Originally Posted by kiteboy
Ben,
I love the 809 shot. Just the right amount of light on her cheeks and eyeball. Beautiful!
Jonathan
Thanks, Jonathan!Quote:
Originally Posted by jcoldslabs
Nice picture. That doesn't look bad at all.
If there was ever type 55 in 4x5 again, I think I could get by with just that. Although it would make being a photographer even more expensive.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ben Syverson
I am not a portraitist by any stretch, but I can see how this is good advice.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp498
You clearly have the technical mastery down. I'm particularly impressed with how the highlights seperate and you get such good high key rendering, something I struggle with. If, as JP says, you get more light on the subject and continue exposing for him, letting the background to a little darker while shooting at a larger aperture to blur it a little (but neither so dark no so blurred that it isn't clear what it is) while keeping that high key separation in the white hair and other highlights, it would be really awesome.
From what I see, part of the key to environmental portraiture is including just enough detail of the environment to set the subject in it, without so much as to be distracting. But I've been daunted so far from even trying this. It's much easier to see how this could be a goal than, I think, to actually pull it off!
True, and shooting at a wider stop to at least slightly more blur the background will help with that, as would getting more light on the subject. If the latter is impossible the former alone will help.Quote:
Originally Posted by David Lobato
Some old Portra 160VC.Quote:
Originally Posted by BrianShaw
Nice Portrait. Congratulations.Quote:
Originally Posted by David Lobato
Wow, I didn't know you could get skin tones that good with VC. I'll have to pull out what I have in the fridge and use it!Quote:
Originally Posted by K. Praslowicz
Tonight's shot of the boy, on 4x5 Arista.EDU Ultra 400 (10:45 in HC-110 dil H 21C). Shot using some little French Petzval I forget the name of.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8426/7...827966b3_z.jpg
Thoughtful by Scott --, on Flickr
Verito f-4, 1/125 sec, Acros 100, Speed Graphic, 49-cent magnifying lens
HC-110, dil H, 72 degrees, 10 minutes, constant agitatiion in Jobo
Attachment 79347
Really strong image! Did you develop the neg?Quote:
Originally Posted by K. Praslowicz
Attachment 79388
Razzle 900, sironar 150mm, f8 1/60s, HP5+ exposed @ 800.